Fascinating request Vince, thanks for raising it - I'd be interested to see 
how Arches handles this use case as well. It's a common heritage issue - 
either competing or equally valid interpretations of a given artefact or 
site based on the (always) limited evidence that archaeology provides. From 
my recording experience (way back when) a typical problem might be that 
aerial photography has identified a site as a crop-mark, but we don't have 
any dating evidence (so in the U.K. it could date from anywhere between say 
4000 BCE or 2000 CE). It could be an IRON AGE / DEFENDED ENCLOSURE, or it 
could equally be a MID TWENTIETH CENTURY / ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY (a rather 
extreme example, but possible). For a user coming to that record, it would 
be helpful to have insight into which authority had suggested which 
interpretation.

Ed

On Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 10:41:41 PM UTC, Vincent Meijer wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I am working on an idea I have to record all interpretations made 
> regarding a specific (heritage) resource. 
>
> I would like to *relate the assignment* of e.g. a cultural period or the 
> use/type of an object (hide scraper, spear head, vase) or an object 
> category (defensive structures, tools, jewelry) *to an authority*.
>
> This authority can be an actor or a (to be created) academic reference, 
> both resource graph types, rather than values in a regular 
> dropdown/authority document. 
>
>
> I want this in particular because it is easier for my users to create a 
> new resource than it is to add values to dropdowns via RDM. Also it seems 
> to me that using the type of search queries CIDOC encourages (find 
> unexpected relationships) would work better this way. 
>
>
> I came up with the following addition to HERITAGE_RESOURCE.E18 (new nodes 
> are the ones sticking out in the top) for 
> HERITAGE_RESOURCE_USE_TYPE_ASSIGNMENT.E17:
>
> (ASSIGNMENT_AUTHORITY.E39 would hold a foreign key to the related 
> resource.)
>
> (Full res: 
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5r8wxmmppbQNTdGczg3cXZMLTg/view )
>
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5r8wxmmppbQNTdGczg3cXZMLTg/view>
>
>
>
> My question is: has anybody done this type of relations before or has an 
> idea how to do it? 
> Arches is currently written to have only relations between two complete 
> resources, not between a node of a resource and a complete resource.
> I get the feeling I should override the create_resource_relationship() 
> function in Arches' resource.py, but perhaps I'm looking at it the wrong 
> way. 
>
> Thank you in advance for any suggestions,
>
> Vincent
>

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